Re: [HIST] Japanese Culture shock

At 6:05 PM +0200 6/24/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>>  Everyone should know you don't use Samurai against knights (wrong
>>  time period).
>
>Err....actually, pretty much the right time period From about 900 to
the
>1650's. Just the wrong place.

I may be wrong, but what most people know of as Samurai (Yojimbo, 
Ran, etc) takes place in 1600 and later. At that point firearms were 
reducing the size and nature of the Heavily armored cavalry in 
Europe. Hussars =!

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